{"id":98967,"date":"2025-08-26T19:03:07","date_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:03:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/98967\/"},"modified":"2025-08-26T19:03:07","modified_gmt":"2025-08-26T19:03:07","slug":"scroll-shaped-skyscraper-design-wins-vote-to-replace-iconic-novy-arbat-building-in-moscow","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/98967\/","title":{"rendered":"Scroll-Shaped Skyscraper Design Wins Vote to Replace Iconic Novy Arbat Building in Moscow"},"content":{"rendered":"

Moscow\u2019s city government announced<\/a>\u00a0on Monday that a scroll-shaped skyscraper has won an online vote to replace one of the capital\u2019s landmark book-shaped buildings on Novy Arbat, which was declared unsafe last year.<\/p>\n

In February, media reported<\/a> that the Mayor\u2019s Office had tapped commercial developer Kievskaya Ploshchad, founded by Russian-Azerbaijani billionaires God Nisanov and Zarakh Iliev, to invest in the project.<\/p>\n

Authorities launched<\/a> the online vote on Aug. 15, offering residents three high-rise designs to replace the Soviet-era Council for Mutual Economic Assistance (Comecon) building. The 26-story structure, long known for its book-like silhouette, was deemed<\/a> structurally unsound in October.<\/p>\n

By the end of the poll, 46% voted for a design that preserves the existing tower while adding a new skyscraper shaped like a scroll and twice as tall.<\/p>\n

\u201cConsidering the condition of the structure, specialists will carry out the necessary reconstruction work,\u201d the mayor\u2019s office said in a statement. It described the scroll tower as a \u201cmetaphor for upward movement, aspiration toward the future and openness to fresh ideas, innovation and creativity.\u201d<\/p>\n

The city did not provide a timeline for construction.<\/p>\n

Kievskaya Ploshchad has said the redevelopment will create a 600,000-square-meter \u201csocial and cultural cluster,\u201d with 450,000 square meters for cultural, leisure and business space and 150,000 for housing and technical facilities.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Moscow\u2019s city government announced\u00a0on Monday that a scroll-shaped skyscraper has won an online vote to replace one of…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":98968,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[357,76,354,355,49,48,356,75,44421],"class_list":{"0":"post-98967","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-arts-and-design","8":"tag-architecture","9":"tag-arts","10":"tag-arts-and-design","11":"tag-artsanddesign","12":"tag-ca","13":"tag-canada","14":"tag-design","15":"tag-entertainment","16":"tag-moscow"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98967","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=98967"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/98967\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/98968"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=98967"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=98967"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=98967"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}